On November 4, the Constitution Party won two contested partisan elections in Pennsylvania. Robert E. Smith defeated his major party opponents for School Director, Clarion-Limestone School District, in region 2. Thomas A. Walter defeated his major party opponent in the same district, in region 3.
Thomas Laehn, the Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate in Iowa in 2026, is already campaign heavily. His activity is resulting in more publicity that Libertarian candidates usually get this early in the season. See this story.
On Sunday, November 16, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders changed the special legislative elections in two districts from June 2026, to March 2026. See this story. She did this after losing preliminary rulings in the state courts.
Chile holds a presidential election on November 16. Eight candidates are on the ballot. If no one gets 50%, there will be a runoff on December 14. Chile is also electing its national legislators.
Independent candidates needed 35,361 valid signatures to get on the ballot.
Tennessee holds a special U.S. House election on December 2, to fill the vacancy in the Seventh District. Six candidates are on the ballot: the nominees of the Republican and Democratic Parties, and four candidates with the label “independent.”
Among the four who qualified as independents, Bobby Dodge says that he is really the nominee of the America Party, but that the requirements for new parties in Tennessee are so difficult, he had to qualify using the independent procedure, which only takes 25 signatures. Here is his campaign website. If one watches his message, toward the end he does say that he represents the party that Elon Musk said he would be founding back in July 2025 (Musk abandoned the idea).
The only other candidate who qualified as an independent and who has a website is Jon Thorp. See his website here.
